Jeff Lyon

Life's Been a Blast

Emily Lyons survived a bomb detonated by Eric Robert Rudolph in Birmingham, Alabama on Jan 29th, 1998. Rudolph was on the FBI's Top Ten for over five years with a reward of one million dollars. The manhunt cost $30 million. Emily sustained extensive injuries, including the loss of her eye. This book...

Altered Fates: The Genetic Re-engineering of Human Life

Seven years in the making, Altered Fates chronicles the saga of gene therapy, a medical revolution unparalleled in human history. In the pages of this rich and detailed narrative, whose characters include the field's leading scientists as well as key patients and their families, the Pulitzer Prize-w...

Sailing Escape: A Cruising Dream Turned Nightmare

Agatha and Ewan McAbe move onto their sailboat Escape to get ready for a cruise around the world. They are sleeping when a savage storm wrecks Dinner Key Marina in Miami. Escape breaks loose, is rammed by other boats and runs aground. Agatha is traumatized during the McAbe’s struggle to survive. Ewa...

Playing God in the Nursery

“The power of Lyon’s book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book.” —Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post In Bloomington, Indiana, an infant with serious birth def...

Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

If a story is going to fail, it will do so first at the premise level. Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success is the only book of its kind to identify a seven-step development process that can be repeated and applied to any story idea. This porcess...

A Decade of Cooking: the Costco Way

A Decade of Cooking: the Costco Way

Playing God in the Nursery

Altered Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of Human Life

Playing God in the Nursery

Altered Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of Human Life